In stead of typing in the right attribute value in de tester parameters, one should be able to select the attribute value from a populated unique values list for a specific field. This option would be the equivalent of the Arcmap "Get unique values" button in the select by attribute dialog box and has two major advantages for more complicated attribute values:
- selecting is faster then typing in
- selecting decreases the chance of typing errors to 0.
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+37Something like this could be done with the new feature caching function of FME 2018. You could run up to a point, set the next transformers and run further.
So instead of importing data one could click run to here from last up to date transformer, and then pick from an unique value list. This could be the next big improvement in developing a workspace. This could become a change as you go workflow, instead of change and re-run.
+3I totally agree, with the new feature caching this should be possible.
With many other transformers as well.
+6Anywhere there is a conditional or a test clause and you have cached data available, you will be able to populate the right value with values from that cached data! No more guesswork—Get the values straight from the source.
If you do give this a try, please share your feedback here. There are ways we can push this functionality further, but we would love to hear your thoughts on where we could improve, what is working, what is not...All feedback welcome!
Happy FME-ing!
+6And that’s exactly what we were able to put into tech preview for 2020.1! Feature caching paved the way :)
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